(1) Unfortunately, certain events prevented me from offering an encompassing pronouncement last weekend.(2) It styles itself as a canon - an authoritative pronouncement on great literature.(3) There was something emphatic, even challenging, in his pronouncement that discouraged questioning.(4) If the pronouncement had been directed at a different predicament, it would have been safe to say it was the only way she could have kept herself sane.(5) In the last few years the pronouncements of European leaders certainly went in that direction.(6) Such pronouncements are premature but the warnings are certainly in place.(7) Politicians are good at making grand pronouncements about tackling the problem, but sustainable solutions are difficult to implement.(8) The theological message of ritual scourging was made clear to spectators in formal pronouncements .(9) It is certainly in his commercial interests to make his pronouncements sound as authoritative as possible.(10) Scientists cannot allow authoritarian pronouncements to replace objective evidence.(11) Only a conciliar decision of the whole church can make such authoritative and binding pronouncements .(12) I don't have general pronouncements to make about how these should be resolved.(13) Arrogant pronouncements by leading Eurocrats and national politicians who pretend to be in favour of more integration have not been helpful.(14) The sooner educationalists use accessible and understandable terms, the more sensible their pronouncements will become.(15) His pronouncements often counter his own stated commitment to reconciliation, and we don't need to repeat all of them to prove our point.(16) We get lots of grand events and the pronouncements of politicians, but very little of what was going on behind the scenes.